Jackson’s Jewellers is a Watford institution. It was founded in 1876 but the building it occupies is hundreds of years older, as is the ghost that is said to haunt it.

The Watford Observer has again teamed up with its friends at Watford Museum to look back on ghostly goings-on and scary stories based on events in the town’s past in the build-up to Halloween.

The shop is situated in a largely complete timber-framed house from 1480 to 1520. A first floor was added to the building in the 16th century.

The building is apparently haunted by a ghost wearing Elizabethan dress.

The apparition was ‘like a grey mist….it had no colour and it was impossible to say whether the doublet was made of velvet or leather’.